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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,319,693 ratings — published 2011
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 78,518 ratings — published 2010
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 491,683 ratings — published 1988
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 20,427 ratings — published 1952
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 34,668 ratings — published 1961
The Republic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 232,030 ratings — published -400
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 612,746 ratings — published 2011
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 40,802 ratings — published 1968
Cruel Optimism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,480 ratings — published 2011
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 22,962 ratings — published 1748
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 24,356 ratings — published 1967
Meditations on First Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 30,526 ratings — published 1641
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 41,214 ratings — published 1985
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 31,190 ratings — published 1978
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 25,497 ratings — published 1988
Distinction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 3,757 ratings — published 1979
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 38,204 ratings — published 1975
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.28 — 2,567 ratings — published 2020
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 43,744 ratings — published 2009
The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 9,157 ratings — published 1953
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,506 ratings — published 1970
Mastery (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 51,047 ratings — published 2012
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 340,268 ratings — published 2012
Rock My Religion: Writings and Art Projects, 1965-1990 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 18 ratings — published 1993
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
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avg rating 4.13 — 47,327 ratings — published -400
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 83,331 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 180,488 ratings — published 2019
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 593,905 ratings — published -500
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as theoretical)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,814 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 294,815 ratings — published 2015
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 23,955 ratings — published 2014
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 20,166 ratings — published 1917
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 5,938 ratings — published 1902
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 575,177 ratings — published 2012
The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 3,477 ratings — published 2008
The Social Contract (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 59,952 ratings — published 1762
Philosophical Investigations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 16,104 ratings — published 1953
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 208,256 ratings — published 1848
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 63,004 ratings — published -350
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 798,250 ratings — published 2016
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 8,410 ratings — published 2008
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 930,373 ratings — published 1946
Mythologies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 17,612 ratings — published 1957
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 14,652 ratings — published 1977
Economics: The User's Guide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 8,802 ratings — published 2014
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 103,883 ratings — published 1999
Great Books of the Western World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 263 ratings — published 1952
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 44,038 ratings — published 1781
Manifiesto Contra-Sexual
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,662 ratings — published 2000
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 28,882 ratings — published 1940
“If I keep observing the uranium, which means a little more than keeping my eyes on the pot on my desk and involves something akin to surrounding it with a whole system of Geiger counters, I can freeze it in such a way that it stops emitting radiation.
Although Turing first suggested the idea as a theoretical construct, it turns out that it is not just mathematical fiction. Experiments in the last decade have demonstrated the real possibility of using observation to inhibit the progress of a quantum system.”
― The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
Although Turing first suggested the idea as a theoretical construct, it turns out that it is not just mathematical fiction. Experiments in the last decade have demonstrated the real possibility of using observation to inhibit the progress of a quantum system.”
― The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
“...new theories and new movements do not develop in a vacuum, they arise to spearhead the necessary social solutions to new problems resulting from contradictions in the environment.”
― The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
― The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution